Rant all you like...:) I'm a Windows developer - it's how I earn my living. Hence, I use the tools that are popular for Windows development. Perl and the gnu compilers are fine for unix development, but I don't run Unix - and I need to "practice" with the tools that I'm asked to develop with - hence I use Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET.
When I become rich/famous enough that I can dictate to my customers what development tools will be used, then I'll think about other tools. Until then, I use what keeps bread on the table and money in the bank. At 12:56 11/3/2002 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: >On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Tracy wrote: > > > I've been playing around with writing one of these in .NET - but I haven't > > gotten it working right yet... If I ever do, I'll put the source up > > somewhere... > >Now I'm going in rant mode, so pls excuse me : > ><rant> >Guys, why are you using stuff like .NET to do this ? Tomorrow M$ will >extract from their gold cylinder .MEAW-BAU and you're very likely screwed. >Perl, on the contrary, has been there forever and it's going to remain >there for another forever, and it has a stable port on almost every know >OS. And, BTW, it does not require 256MB of RAM only to say "Hello World" ... ></rant> > > > > >- Davide > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
